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| Brand: Think Fun
Category: Toy
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $11.95
You Save: $5.04 (30%)
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 3393
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 10.5 x 3.5
MPN: 5530
Model: 5530
UPC: 019275055301
EAN: 0019275055301
ASIN: B00005MP02
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Team or individual play | | • | Thirty-six starting letter tiles | | • | Thirty-six ending letter tiles | | • | Letter getter | | • | For ages 8 years and above |
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Product Description
Go head to head with family and friends in this fast-paced, hilarious word game. To play, just slide the Letter Getter forward then back to reveal two letters. Be the first player to shout out a word of five or more letters and win the round. Play Smart Mouth with two or more players or in teams. When the Letter Getter is empty, the player with the most tiles wins the game! Game variations include "The Name Game," "Word War, Trump Time, Geography, and "Bogus Bluff," as well as rules for younger kids, and tips for teachers. Ages 8 to adult. Having fun is great way to learn with ThinkFun & Think Fun games. ThinkFun games engage kids and educate kids. They challenge players and nurture the thinking skills important to growth and development. Our games arent designed to simply occupy a childs time. They channel the natural joy and energy of play into a stimulating, family-focused way of building essential thinking skills.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Great Family Game November 17, 2008
Learning All The Time (USA)
My whole family enjoys this simple vocabulary game. The set up is very similar to Zingo, except instead of the handle sliding forward and releasing two bingo chips, it releases two letters.
Players need to think of a word that begins with the first letter and ends with the second. We require 4 letters from our kids, and 5 or more adults. You can bend the rules even more for an early reader and allow them to call out 3 letter words. The first person to shout out their word takes the letters, and at the end of the game, the player with the most chips wins.
You may think that the adults always win, but that is not the case! My youngest has a photographic memory and he gives us all a run for our money. And adults can sometimes just blank on a word while the kids have one on the tip of their tongue. The result is that everyone plays feeling like they have a decent shot at winning.
My husband likes this game because it is pretty quick, we can play a round in less than 10 minutes. My youngest really likes sorting the chips and putting them in the handle, and sliding it forward to release the letters. The middle kids like the challenge of trying to come up with words first, and I like the fact the whole family plays it together!
 Good idea, but too hard January 13, 2008
treehuggera
This is a great idea for a game, but even when playing with just adults it can sometimes be very hard and frustrating. But it does work your brain and can be interesting.
Good brain strain motivator June 26, 2007
Sandra K. OConnor (Waco, TX)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Have been using this game as a kinesthetic approach to vocabulary study/enhancement. Very good brain stimulation. May be difficult for some students, however, for any possibility of dual beginning letters(sounds)and/or endings may appear. Yet once students get the hang of the game (which happens rather quickly), it is quite a learning tool. There are few parts, no multiple stimulating/distracting items (such as timers, dice, or beepers) so participants can learn to focus on the objective only. Great for a middle school or high school class.
Awesome Game for all Ages! April 6, 2007
Barbara A. Andersen (Kalispell, MT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a facilitator of the gifted students in our district, I try to find activities I can use with kids from grades 3-9. That can be hard to do. Smart Mouth was a hit with kids in all the elementary schools as well as the middle schools. The linguistics problem solving was awesome, and I was impressed with some of the words the students came up with when I thought it was going to be impossible.
My 7 y.o. loves it April 7, 2006
Kathryn K (Southborough, MA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 7 y.o., whose spelling skills lag her math/logic skills. I was looking for fun ways to practice spelling. She finds the game fun, and enjoys the challenge of the hard letter combinations that come up (though we added our own rule that we can "pass" if we both agree). I believe it does help reinforce spelling skills. However, the letter dispenser sometimes sticks, which is annoying. Tip: make sure you separate the letter tiles really carefully before you stack them--if they are stuck together, they will jam.
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